Anyone else have too many 60s now?

[puppychow]

I will say, while it sounds nice on paper to have a "alt set" of different classes, in practice its not as viable as it sounds. Leveling 60-70 is s-l-o-w. Doing quests is slow as heck (so many collection quests), and running instances is slow. Especially after the insane speeds of RAF from 1-60. With just 4 shamans (my pre-RAF team) I am muddling along at a decent pace from 60-70, trying to do 4 different classes w/o grounding totem etc would be a bit of a nightmare. And once I hit 70 there is so much to do still, it'll be very helpful in expansion to have the s2 welfare epic gear so thats a few dozen hours of PVP grinding, arena a bit, try to do the sunwell dailies for gold/rep, maybe work on the netherdrake mounts. All of those will easily consume the 2-3 hours/day of playtime, leaving no time at all for more teams.

I am thinking mostly about WOTLK - it would be nice to have a team of 5 geared 80s out the door quickly who can farm/run instances/etc, with 4 or 5 DKs leveling in slow (rested) time during that time as well. Between 10 characters all professions would be covered.

In reality it is much better to have 5 70s doing dailys and farming gold than a ton of 60s who have a ton of different profs but can't get gold as fast. While I hate paying 100g for a fel iron rod, its a one time expense and leveling blacksmithing to 350 would be 2000g+ of expenses, I'd rather pay the 100g, which I know I can farm in just a few minutes at 70.

I agree with the people who said think out carefully what you want and what is realistic, and focus on just a few specific goals. I thought I'd easily be able to level a second set to 70, but just leveling one is boring enough that I think that idea is out the door for now

[Woodchuck]

I got to this point too, so I took some time out from playing to work out what I was exactly doing.

Here's what I came up with as my actual objectives:

1. Have one of every class at 70/80, regardless of gear.

2. Have a paly/4 shammy group to play with in instances

3. Have a full hunter group for incredibly overpowered grinding

4. Have 1 of each profession at 375/450

And that was it. I started out with a long list, like pvp, rep, gear, and so on, that had grown from the possibilities. But when it comes down to it, that's what I really wanted. To attempt any instance, to grind fast for cash, and just to be able to swap chars if I felt like it.

And you need to resist the urge to vary from your goal. As one poster had said once, don't make the game into 'work'.

Nice list. The hardest part now is staying focused (and maybe paying for mount training heh).